Rome Dodson
Click for Rome's last flight. Andy Beem as nose-wire man:
Photo: Courtesy of hang glider Vrezh Tumanyan, 2012,
summer. Were you there? Tell us.
Video of last flight and then later a speech by
Rome (turn up volume): >>
Rome
Full of ideas:
August 23, 2010.
Three weeks ago 81 year old veteran hang glider pilot Rome Dodson … after some
recovery pause … again flew from Kagel in his specially made harness that does
not allow him to use his feet; he lands on wheels. Yesterday he exclaimed one of
his pet ideas that would have an explosive device that would go off on the
underside of the nose when his wing would whack or come near whacking; the
reaction of the explosive would move the nose back up a bit, somwhat like
spacecraft control attitude. We talked a bit and I brought up the deployable
snout that would keep his wing from whacking. But now with your post Blindrodie,
perhaps we could get Rome a sounder that upon touchdown would loudspeak "WHACK,
WHACK, WHACK" to delight the LZ crowd at Sylmar.
From
OZ Report.